[1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

[Harris, Brian]

“take immediate action to accelerate deployment of [advanced
telecommunications] capability by removing barriers to infrastructure
investment and by promoting competition in the telecommunications market.”9
The Commission will fulfill that requirement in part by addressing the
proposals for Commission action set forth in the National Broadband Plan.10"
Para. 3 of the FCC Notice.

As long as the FCC hews to this mutually contradictory notion we will
continue to be stuck in the dark ages.  There is ample evidence that firms
won't invest in their infrastructure absent robust competition, and recently
the NM PRC found that competition in this state is  nowhere near effective.
This state will remain in the dark ages.  Regulatory fiat will not change
that.

Brian

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Norbert Nez <nnez at nndcd.org> wrote:

> The new FCC broadband report raises the minimum speed threshold for
> broadband from 200 Kbps in both directions to 4 Mbps downstream and 1 Mbps
> upstream
>
> http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2010/db0720/FCC-10-129A1.pdf
>
> On Jul 23, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Andrew cohill wrote:
>
> We've begun to talk about "little" broadband and "big" broadband to address
> this very issue.  We use the term "little broadband" to talk about DSL,
> cable modem, WiFi, and satellite, and "big broadband" to talk about fiber
> networks delivering 100 megabit or Gigabit connections.
>
> We have found this to be very effective, as ordinary people immediately
> understand that they don't want to be stuck with "little" broadband.
>
> One of the other language issues we run into is that "broadband" and
> "Internet" are used synonymously, and this causes great confusion.
>
> Broadband, properly used, refers to the basic transport network, which can
> carry many services.  Internet access is just one of dozens or even hundreds
> of services that can be delivered over a high performance broadband network.
>  People and businesses want more than "high speed Internet."  They want
> phone and TV services, they want business class services like
> videoconferencing, data backup services, medical and telehealth services,
> security services, movies on demand, and much more.
>
> Broadband is the highway.  Internet access is just one of the trucks using
> the highway.
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On Jul 15, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
>
> The problem with essays/editorials like this is that they rarely define
> "broadband."  For too long now, the FCC said it was 250kbytes (NB make sure
> one specifies BITES or BYTES) up and down.  In fact, we need to join much of
> the so-called developing world like Japan and South Korea and set our
> initial target a 1gigabytes up and down .
>
>
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